ARUNDHATI ROY: Well you know it's it's true that last year before I came, I was coerced to come to America because I did think that there was no need for me to come here and you know be insulted and called names and so on. Because you think of it as a homogenous place in some way, and I was so delighted to find the opposite. I was so delighted to find that we who are protesting against these things on the outside have some of our staunchest allies in America. And I must say that, it put me in the extraordinary position of defending American citizens against an assault which is absolutely racist sometimes, outside, because of these media channels and because of the policies of the US government, people in America are just seen as a homogenous bunch of rabid, nationalist bullies and that's such a sad thing because I think if we are going to fight to reclaim democracy that fight has to begin here. And all of us have to acknowledge that it is the people of America who have access to the imperial palace. And so, it was wonderful to come. At the same time, this consolidation of the American media. I mean I think, one of the good things that happened after September 11th, was that this myth of free speech and the free market crumbled along with the twin towers you know. Outside America, the American free press has become the butt of some pretty dark humor and nobody now it's contextualized you know. When you watch CNN and FOX news--anywaynot everybody, but a lot of people just watch it as the boardroom bulletin of the White House you know, and know it for what it is.
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